Why do people think there's a Global Warming consensus if 31,072 scientists say there's not?

Question

The Global Warming Petition Project was released today in which 31,072 scientists (including 9,021 PHDs) state that the current Global Warming trend is not caused by humans and is not a crisis.

http://www.petitionproject.org/index.html

Answer 1

This is nothing but a repackaged bogus "survey" that used deceptive practices to mislead a bunch of people.  This is old news, long ago discredited.

Answer 2

I went to the web page you listed. I love the example card, Edward Teller, co-developer of the hydrogen bomb...oh, and of course he's been DEAD for 5 years!  Then there's a letter from Frederick Seitz, co-developer of the Wigner-Seitz cell used in solid state physics and also DEAD!  

Maybe it's a conspiracy...go against global warming and die!  Or maybe it's a couple of very old scientists who were not even involved in the climate field taking a stance against something they are not very familiar with.

The scientists involved in the IPCC consensus are alive and actually work in a related field.  Teller and Seitz, the two most prominent names, were both quite old when they signed it and definitely not at that top of their scientific prowess. I don't mean to denigrate the work of either man, but they weren't climate scientists, or oceanographers, or geophysicists. Teller could not have even been familiar with the latest IPCC report, since he'd been dead for 4 years when it came out.

Answer 3

well the people say that there is no global warming effect are just stubborn and do not listen to the facts, or just dont care about it.

Answer 4

Previous lists from this source have been shown to be nonsense.   An online petition with nothing but a list of names?  No affiliations?  Give me a break.

EVERY major scientific organization has issued an official statement that this is real, and mostly caused by us.  The National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Physics, the American Chemical Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Association, etc.

The NAS is particularly credible.  That's 1800 of the USA's best scientists, elected by their peers.  Being elected to the NAS is like winning the Oscar in science.

Answer 5

A lot of "professionals" let their own ignorance and bias to get in the way of the facts.  Remember when people speculated that the earth was round how people spat on that theory, too?  There are still "scientists" who stubbornly and stupidly promote that there is no such thing as evolution and that fossils are nothing more than geological anomalies.  I've even had the unfortunate displeasure of meeting one such "scientist" who firmly believed that humans had no negative impact on the earth, whatsoever.  And I th ink anyone can agree, that just because you're educated does not necessarily mean that you're smart.

Of COURSE global warming exists!  It's true that the planet, and the entire solar system have had fluctuations in temperature since the dawn of the galaxy, but it's never been nearly as prominent or destructive than it is right now.  And this we know by looking at the biological and geological records going back hundreds of thousands of years.  Polar bears have been around for much longer than that, and yet only now are they considered an endangered species due to their habitat literally melting away.  We have linked, without a shadow of a doubt, that our own pollutions are wreaking havoc on our atmosphere and climate.  And yet, somehow, people still don't get it.

Ugh, my dad's one of those idiots who claims that there is no such thing as global warming and that we're all just hunky dory, that DDT was the best thing mankind ever invented and that fossil fuels are plentiful and will never, ever run out.  Makes me want to drive an ice pick into his face.  The only solace I get is knowing that most of these dolts are on the older side, and will most likely be dead soon enough so that us young people who give a c**p can step in and finally make some badly needed changes.

Answer 6

The government.

Answer 7

Wow you send a link to an on line petition where any pud can state they are a  scientist and have advanced degrees without any required supporting evidence, and then we are suppose to take this serious?

You gotta be high.

Answer 8

Pegminer: Edward Teller did sign the original Oregon Petition in the late 90's after the Kyoto push came out (compare his signature to the examples on the net). The petition has only recently been re-opened due to the growing number of qualified skeptics joining him.

Man-made Global Warming assertions are unraveling faster than the con artists can spin!

Answer 9

I have yet to see one of these anti-AGW petitions that HASN'T been exposed as fraud. That Oregon petition they circulated in particular was a laughing stock.

32,000? Sounds like the people from this 'Petition Project' didn't do their homework, didn't take a page from Oregon's sad and pathetic book, and require background checks for scientists. The Oregon petition was chock full of names that, 1 were not real, 2 of people who didn't actually sign, and 3 of ANYONE who had ANY sort of science degree--it wasn't tailored specifically to CLIMATOLOGISTS, the subject in question.

Answer 10

But should we risk inaction...